COA's Teacher Education Program Turns Five Years before the state of Maine ap- proved College of the Atlantic's Teacher Certification Program, a num- ber of COA students believed the best background educators could have was an education in human ecology. In 1979, a number of students put together an environmental education seminar, which met informally over two or three years. Students and alum- ni later worked with Peter Corcoran, who joined COA's faculty in 1982, to develop a self-study in teacher educa- tion. This study led to COA's approval by the Maine State Board of Education to certify teachers in elementary class- room and secondary science education in February 1987. Over the subsequent five years, eighteen human ecologists have graduated from College of the Atlantic with teaching certificates, and the num- ber of students participating in COA's n faculty member Etta Mooser in class. 1992 marks the fifth year teacher education program grows each er Education Prgram has been accredited. year. The addition of new faculty and ad- ministrative staff have greatly strengthened the program. Etta Mooser, Ed.D., joined the COA facul- DA NEWS ty in 1988 to teach courses in critical theory, history of education, and learn- ing theory. When Peter Corcoran left COA in 1989 to teach at Swarthmore College, Mooser took over as coor- COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC BAR HARBOR, MAINE dinator and hired Catherine Kiorpes Elk, a 1982 COA graduate who had asters Candidate Selected gone on to earn a secondary science teaching certificate in Maine, to assist her. As program administrator for lage GIS in Barrow, Alaska continued on page 10 0, slated to receive Inupiat subsistence hunting and fish- er of Philosophy in ing culture into a sustainable modern degree in June 1992, economy. Also In This Issue job as Manager of Jacobsen's Geographic Informa- rmation Systems for tion System will be used to help Gates Center Profile: Borough in Barrow, manage the development of the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. 7 Borough's extensive petroleum and Howe to Give First nmost community in mineral resources, which include the Keppel Memorial Lecture 7 s, Jacobsen is provid- Prudhoe Bay oil fields and the con- rce information to In- troversial coastal plain of the Arctic Two Senior Artists 8 ders and villagers. He National Wildlife Refuge. He will also Faculty Perspective of six persons, includ- be taking inventory of the Arctic's by Alesia Maltz 11 : native to the region, biological resources - charting the 1 develop applica- domain of whales, walruses, and seals; Visiting Committee Considered for College 13 th Slope Borough caribou, fish, and waterfowl; tundra Geographic Informa- berry patches and nesting grounds - all Letters to the Editor 14 Borough's goal is to of which give life to the native Inupiat ntial elements of the culture. continued on page 12 COA Researchers Develop Database for Acadia National Park College of the Atlantic biologist Dr. been written on the Park, some of change influenced by local human dis- Craig Greene and three COA which date back to the 1800s. turbance, climatic and atmospheric graduates have developed a computer In assembling the information, Re- change, and other factors. Says database which indexes all research ar- search Associates Glen Mittelhauser Greene, "In providing a clear picture ticles written on natural resources of '89, Jamien Jacobs '86 and Linda of what is known about Park resour- Acadia National Park and adjacent Gregory '88, under Greene's direc- ces, this project will aid researchers areas in Downeast coastal Maine. tion, spent over two years contacting and managers in developing the best "Because Acadia has been the researchers and poring through the inventorying and monitoring focus of many naturalists' studies over libraries of College of the Atlantic, strategies for natural resources in the past 150 years, the natural history the University of Maine, and Acadia Acadia National Park." of Mount Desert Island may be the National Park seeking out the multi- The project was the latest of a num- best known of any area of comparable tude of research that has been done ber of such undertakings ac- size on the continent," says Greene. on the region. The database, along complished for the National Park "But until now, no comprehensive bib- with an 800-page bound summary of Service, North Atlantic Region, by liography of this information has ex- the references, will be kept at the College of the Atlantic under the listed." The accumulated information Park's main office on Mount Desert Is- Cooperative Agreement between the will serve as a foundation for future in- land. Similar projects are being two groups. Other projects completed ventorying and monitoring efforts in developed at other national parks in under the Agreement include the Park. the United States. reintroducing peregrine falcons to the The index is organized by region, The newly organized historical Park and studying rare and endanger- species, date, author, and other database provides unique oppor- ed flora of Mount Desert Island. keywords, and provides an annotated tunities for the Park. The database - Elena Tuhy summary of each of the more than facilitates comparisons of historic and 1000 research articles which have Elena Tuhy '90 is the Director of Public Af- contemporary fauna and flora that fairs at COA. may indicate long-term patterns of Hinckley Named Co-chair of The Champlain Society The Champlain Society Chair Alice Eno is pleased to announce Bettina Hinckley's appointment as co-chair of The Champlain Society. Hinckley has been a member of College of the Atlantic's Board of Trustees since 1989. Eno, who has guided The Champlain Society for the past two years, will continue as co-chair. Hinckley is co-founder of Bass Har- bor Marine, in Bass Harbor, Maine, as well a charter broker at Hinckley Yachts. She is a trustee of Carrabassett Valley Academy in Kingfield, Maine, and a former chairman of the South- west Harbor School Board and the Mount Desert Island High School Board. She lives in Manset, Maine, with her husband Robert Lyman The Champlain Society member Mrs. E. Mortimer Newlin and Alice Eno, chair of Hinckley. They have three children, the Society, enjoy an afternoon sail on the Harvey Gamage. This was one of the Jill, Benjamin and Elizabeth, and two many events hosted by The Champlain Society during the summer of 1991. grandchildren. "I am very excited about the She and Eno, along with Special Desert Rock, and the Sixth Annual prospects for The Champlain Society, Events Coordinator Cynthia Borden- Summer Lecture Series. and hope we can expand Society mem- Chisholm, are currently making arran- The Champlain Society was formed bership to more members of the local gements for The Champlain Society in 1988 to honor individuals and or- community," Hinckley said. "I have al- summer events. These include a boat ganizations who contribute $1,000 or ways admired the way Alice Eno has trip to Petit Manan, a Falcon Watch, more annually to support the college's handled the job of chair, and I look for- gardens tours on Great Cranberry Is- programs through the Annual Fund. ward to working with her." land, a two-boat excursion to Mount COA NEWS 2 SPRING 1992